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Geoffroy Gérard – Associate Director of Communications at IE – Ie University. Reading: The quest Jacques Brel version of the song: The impossible dream by Mitch Leigh (music) and Joe Darion (lyrics) from Man of La Mancha, 1964. To Dream the impossible dream To Bear the heartbreak of loss To Burn with greatest of fever To […]

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Jesús Arcenegui Méndez – BBA-BIR Student. IE University. Reading: Long live my doubt by Jesús Arcenegui Méndez, 2015. Uncertainty circles round and round my head, Determined to show true lies, It comes along and throws everything up in the air. It just salts and destroys the planting. A bullet right in the neck, A noose to stop […]

Norman Kurtis – Vice Dean of Behavior & Human Development, IE School of Human Sciences and Technology. Reading: The first thanksgiving by Edward Winslow, 1622. Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, so that we might, after a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our […]

Mario Palmer – IMBA Student. IE Business School. Reading: For every hill i’ve had to climb by Ernest Lawrence Thayer. For every hill I’ve had to climb, For every stone that bruised my feet, For all the blood and sweat and grime, For blinding storms and burning heat My heart sings but a igrateful song— These […]

Arabdha Sudhir – IE Business School Associate Director of Admissions. Reading: The Aftermath by Arabdha Sudhir, 2014. The flames rise and refrain.. Burnt soot still lingers on.. A faint reminder- of things left behind.. Broken fragments of another world.. Unfinished stories.. a haunting- that will forever remain.. In the deep dungeons we seldom visit.. Almost a part […]

Fernando Dameto – Deputy Director of Humanities. Reading: Bird on the wire by Leonard Cohen from the album Songs from a room, 1969. Like a bird on the wire, Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free. Like a worm on a hook, Like a knight from some old […]

David Vercammen – Program Assistant IE University. Reading: I will then be by Louis Paul Boon from the book Collected Poems, 1979. I will then be gradually becoming a man feeling old a flower a poem on the lips and further crafting some air pollution and so I will then be gradually becoming a tidy old man […]

Aruna Iyer – Graduate Student Master in Corporate Communication. IE Business School. Reading: The sorrow has reached the gigantic proportions of mountains by Dushyant Kumar Tyagi from the book Saaye Mein Dhoop, 1975. The sorrow has reached the gigantic proportions of mountains,it is time that a soothing Ganges emerges out to alleviate the pain. Yes, the walls have […]

Diego del Alcázar Benjumea – IE Vicepresident. Reading: The returning waves from The Tales of Ise, a collection of Japanese folk tales, 10th century. Once upon a time, a man who, due to various circumstances, found himself in a difficult situation in the capital left for the eastern provinces. When he arrived to the shore […]

David Hernández de la Fuente – Humanities Professor. IE University and UNED. Reading: The Bacchae by Euripides (ancient greek tragedy), 5th century b.c. I, the son of Zeus, have come to this land of the Thebans—Dionysus, whom once Semele, Kadmos’ daughter, bore, delivered by a lightning-bearing flame. And having taken a mortal form instead of […]

Manuel Lucena Giraldo – Associate Professor of Humanities. IE University. Reading: Why Spain? by John H. Elliott from book History in the Making, 2012. I became a historian of Spain largely by accident. In the summer of 1950, near the end of my first year reading history in Cambridge University, I saw a notice in Varsity, the […]

Cécile Nolan – Bachelor in Communications Student. IE University. Reading: Demain dès l’aube by Victor Hugo from book Les Contemplations, 1856. Tomorrow, at dawn, the moment the countryside is whitened, I will leave. You see, I know that you’re waiting for me. I will go through the forest, I will go across the mountains. I cannot […]

Taiki Kubota – Head Mentor & Mentorship Program Coordinator, Student Office. IE University. Reading: The Little Prince (chapter 21) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from book The Little Prince, 1943. The fox gazed at the little prince, for a long time. “Please–tame me!” he said. “I want to, very much,” the little prince replied. “But I have not […]

Martina Cubric – Psycology Student. IE University. Reading: Suburbian Ballad by Dobriša Cesarić (10 January 1902 – 18 December 1980) And the petroleum lamp sheds still Its red-orange light On the deep mud near the old fence And two, or three bricks on the road. And always the same paupers come Under its light from the darkness, And with […]

Antonella Carducci Artensio – Business Administration & Law Student. IE University. Reading: Veglia by Giuseppe Ungaretti from the book L’allegria, 1916. A whole night thrown near a comrade massacred with his mouth snarling towards the full moon with the swelling of his hands penetrating my silence I wrote letters full of love I’ve never been more attached […]

Mariam Katsanashvili – Business Administration & International Relations Student. IE University. Reading: Untitled poem by Tariel Kharkhelauri from the book The Symphony of Life, 2012. So, Let’s play, it’s not that hard. Don’t cling to salvaged days, If the body is free, then the soul is spared. Life chooses the rules for us. You don’t like […]

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